Trump administration reportedly planning to fire 2,145 Nasa employees

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/nasa-workforce-cuts

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  1. China can have space. /s

    Kennedy, LBJ, and nixon are rolling in their graves. 

  3. How will they run *Space Force* if there’s no NASA?

  4. Currently NASA is without any leadership as it is.  We might as well tell Xi that we are ceding US leadership to China with respect to space exploration and other space travel and advancement. They are already pursuing their interest aggressively along with their allies and we are going to be left behind.

  5. >Last week, seven former heads of Nasa’s Science Mission Directorate signed a joint letter to Congress condemning the White House’s proposed 47% cuts to Nasa science activities in its 2026 budget proposal. In the letter, the former officials urged the House appropriations committee “to preserve US leadership in space exploration and reject the unprecedented cuts to space science concocted by the White House’s Budget Director, Russ Vought”.

    That’s exactly who I Vought.

    Locusts.

  8. The last season of *For All Mankind* will be pretty bleak in comparison to reality

  10. Mark off space race as something the U.S. will no longer lead the world in.

  11. This dudes ignorance is costing our societies future…

  14. THE ONLY WAY BACK FROM THIS INSANITY IS TO VOTE !

    HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN COMPETITIVE DISTRICTS WHO VOTED FOR THE BBB:

    ALASKA: Nick Begich (AK-AL)     COLORADO: Gabe Evans (CO-08) KENTUCKY: Andy Barr (KY-06)     MISSOURI: Ann Wagner (MO-02) NEBRASKA: Don Bacon (NE-02)     NEW JERSEY: Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07) NEW YORK: Mike Lawler (NY-17)     TENESSEE: Andy Ogles (TN-05) TEXAS: Monica De La Cruz (TX-15)     MICHIGAN: Bill Huizenga (MI-04) MICHIGAN: Tom Barrett (MI-07)     VIRGINIA: Rob Wittman (VA-01) VIRGINIA: Jen Kiggans (VA-02)     WISCONSIN: Bryan Steil (WI-01) WISCONSIN: Derrick Van Orden (WI-03)     ARIZONA: David Schweikert (AZ-01) ARIZONA: Eli Crane (AZ-02)     ARIZONA: Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) CALIFORNIA: David Valado (CA-22)     CALIFORNIA: Young Kim (CA-40) CALIFORNIA: Ken Calvert (CA-41)     FLORIDA: Cory Mills (FL-07) FLORIDA: Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13)     FLORIDA: Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27) IOWA: Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01)     IOWA: Ashley Hinson (IA-02) IOWA: Zach Nunn (IA-03)     OHIO: Max Miller (OH-07) OHIO: Mike Turner (OH-10)     OHIO: Mike Carey (OH-15) PENNSYLVANIA: Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01)     PENNSYLVANIA: Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07) PENNSYLVANIA: Rob Bresnahan (PA-08)     PENNSYLVANIA: Scott Perry (PA-10)

  15. Operation Paper Clip Straightener.

    We’re going to fast track to 3rd world status just because some narcissist fraud doesn’t want to serve time in jail for 34 felonies

  16. I don’t understand the logic of getting rid of people in areas where we’re good at, just to make it worse. For a man who who’s constantly bragging about how great and powerful we are, he’s doing everything in his power to make sure we lose what made us great.

  18. I worked for a NASA affiliate. I knew many hard working researchers and admin people there. None of them deserve this and we will be poorer as a nation and as humans from their absence.

  19. He will fire them and the next day claim that NASA is so understaffed because of Joe Biden.

  20. And the U.S. will lose the talent. These people won’t sit on their asses, and likely have no interest in working for Elon.

  21. All they know how to do is destroy. They never come up with any idea to make things better for Americans.

  22. The plan is to destroy America from within as its citizens cheer their own demise. He has cut social services, stifled the media, eliminated FEMA and early warning systems, placed a consumer tax on the nation (tariffs), and created a rogue police force to ensure no one complains. Everyday I wake up we’ve lost something else, and Americans still believe we are somehow becoming great. It’s Hilarious in the most cynical way.

  23. Nothing is going to make this research cheaper than firing a bunch of civil servants who are willing to work for less than half of what they could get in the private sector so greedy fuckers like Musk and Bezos can run the show.

  24. This is it! The point where America becomes great again. Little did we know that NASA was what was stopping us. Good thing Trump is in office to figure out this kind of stuff for us. I’d have never thought it was NASA holding the country back in a million years.

  26. It all makes sense if you think Trump is trying to destroy America on behalf of foreign powers.

  27. Trump and Harris sure wouldn’t have been ANY different…. right…. right?

  28. > We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

     - Cooper in Interstellar 

  29. Over and over, history is a bunch of yahoos with a legitimate grievance against the ruling class exploiting them deciding instead to absolutely wreck shit for doctors, teachers, and other people who make society function.

  30. One small handed stupid man, one giant leap backwards for mankind.

  31. Pff, NASA, space exploration? What about here on Earth? What has space exploration ever done for us, other than [Infrared ear thermometers, Ventricular assist devices, Artificial limbs, Light‑emitting diodes in medical therapies, Invisible braces, Scratch‑resistant lenses, Space blankets, Aircraft anti‑icing systems, Highway safety innovations, Improved radial tires, Chemical detection systems, Video‑enhancing and analysis systems, Fire‑resistant reinforcements, Fire‑fighting equipment, Temper foam (memory foam), Enriched baby food, Portable cordless vacuums (e.g. DustBusters), Freeze drying, Water purification tech, Solar cells, Pollution remediation solutions, Structural analysis software, Remotely controlled ovens, NASA Visualization Explorer, OpenStack, Software catalog, Powdered lubricants, Improved mine safety, Food safety technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies)…

  32. I grew up admiring NASA and wanting to work on deep space exploration. My inner child is furious

  33. You rat bastards that voted for this clown literally voted America’s future away. You’ve done irreparable damage. Fuck all of you.

  34. I hope Buzz Aldrin is feeling like a proper idiot for backing these morons.

  35. Fuck. So much innovation has come from NASA research. I can’t stand how backwards everything Republicans do is.

  36. Its a fascist authoritian war on intellectuals and scientists in general.

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